John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 22:15

John Gill Commentary

Ezekiel 22:15

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Ezekiel 22:15

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee." — Ezekiel 22:15 (ASV)

And I will scatter you among the Heathen, and disperse you
in the countries
Not only cause them to be carried captive to some one place, as Babylon; but to be scattered and dispersed throughout the various provinces of it, and in other nations, as chaff is by the winds; signifying hereby the power by which it would be done; their weakness, who would not be able to hinder it; and the uncomfortable condition they would be in: and will consume your filthiness out of you ;
by destroying some filthy persons, and reforming others; by bringing them by means of those afflictions to a sense of their sins, and to forsake them; and so would be refined as silver from its dross in a furnace: it may have a particular reference to their idolatry, that filthy sin, which they were cured of, and purged from, by their captivity, and to which they returned no more.